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Panpsychism - Universal Consciousness?

I think this is a cool concept that has actually been around for eons all the way back to Plato and Stoics in the West and Taoists and Buddhists in the East. Some modern Quantum physicists see a connection between the sub atomic realm and consciousnesses.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-consciousness-universal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

Here are a few notable quotes..

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.
— Erwin Schrödinger

The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.
— Arthur Eddington

We do not find obvious evidence of life or mind in so-called inert matter…; but if the scientific point of view is correct, we shall ultimately find them, at least in rudimentary form, all through the universe
— J. B. S. Haldane

Mind or something of the nature as mind must exist throughout the entire universe. This is, I believe, the truth.
— Julian Huxley

The laws of physics leave a place for mind in the description of every molecule… In other words, mind is already inherent in every electron, and the processes of human consciousness differ only in degree and not in kind.
— Freeman Dyson

That which we experience as mind… will in a natural way ultimately reach the level of the wavefunction and of the 'dance' of the particles. There is no unbridgeable gap or barrier between any of these levels… It is implied that, in some sense, a rudimentary consciousness is present even at the level of particle physics.
— David Bohm

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Trying to be Hopeful for #Hillary2016 in Spite of Lesser of Evils Scenarios In US Presidential Election

To All my Readers Around the World - I am back from a writing/blogging hiatus because life is something that happens while you're busy making other plans.

Anyway - I was a big Senator Bernie Sanders supporter and like millions of other idealists (13 million that voted for him) across America - sent him money several times for his presidential campaign. It was the only corporate free donation run for major office in American history. Money was less of an issue than was corrupt insider Democratic National Committee (DNC) politics as usual. The DNC led by congresswoman and previous Hillary Clinton aid Debbie Wasserman Shultz spearheaded a secretive sabotage campaign against the Sanders camp early on as Wikileaks official emails have shown - thus locking down the nearly 600 Democrat Super Delegates - which could have easily changed the outcome of the race for the Democratic nomination. Neither candidate reached the necessary regular delegate threshold count to clinch the Democratic race and Senator Sanders was only around 300 behind Clinton. Thus if the DNC actually gave Sanders a fair listen and judged him by his progressive policy agenda - which Hillary has had to totally appropriate to hopefully get some of the young vote to clinch the presidency against the worst Republican nightmare reality TV star and ethically corrupt business man (4 major bankruptcies so far) - the true progressive Sanders would have probably won the nomination. C'est la vie.

The good news is 30 year congress veteran Senator Sanders has serious juice on the hill now and he will surely use it to push through the progressive ideals he has been consistently speaking of for his entire career - 40 years as a public servant who has never sold out to the 1% special interests multi-national corporations that are slowly but surely taking over our planet one corrupt puppet politician at a time. I look forward to seeing how Mr Sanders uses this newly acquired power base he so rightly earned during this extremely hopeful and then disturbing surreal presidential campaign season 2016.

Another major issue has been the ongoing voter suppression corruption in many states all over the country, including even hyper-progressive Brooklyn, NY where 125,000 potential Sanders voters were erased from the polls - supposedly based on not voting in recent elections - but this major kind of voter purging was never done before - so it and many other such sketchy scenarios throughout the US raises red flags about the legitimacy of our broken and fragile democracy.

Nonetheless Hillary Clinton is the lesser of evils choice for this Presidential election cycle 2016 - even with all her corporate conflict of interest business dealings. She has paid her dues and has a very impressive resume at the top rungs of power in our country. Even with her hawkish bad judgement about the Middle East wars, questionable dealings with providing military weapons deals etc with donors to the Clinton Foundation and recent debacle with having a private sever receiving somewhat classified emails at home etc etc - she is still not as bad as lying weirdo, misogynist, racist, evil 1%er Donald Trump! So if you do not vote in disgust of the broken system - you are actually voting for the idiot Trump and possibly the disintegration of the USA - so get off your butts and vote for Hillary!

I am hoping that Hillary will not only win big time but pleasantly surprise us with getting through some serious domestic legislation that is long over due - like tax resources $ for major infrastructure fixing and building a new clean energy grid and transportation sector etc. This will create millions of much needed decent living wage jobs and get us on track to break away from dirty fossil fuels that are bringing the world to a dangerous precipice of global warming. Sadly, we just passed the dreaded 400 ppm - parts per million - levels of CO2 emissions in the air, which are the major factor in the greenhouse effect that creates global warming and ice caps melting-sea levels rising - extreme weather etc that is happening as I write this blog. This is a big difference between Clinton and Trump who thinks Global Warming is a hoax and denies the 97% of world scientists that say otherwise. He is a fool. Hillary is not my first choice but anyone but Trump is the reality we find ourselves in. One thing about Hillary is that she is a hard worker and so maybe - just maybe she may get some good stuff done. Let's all hope and pray so and VOTE Hillary 2016! The future of America is at stake! This is no joke!

God Bless this Mess!

Gladwell's 10,000 hour Rule meme is Over Simplified - More like 20,000 or even 200 relative to Endeavor...

Lately I am hearing this meme about 10,000 hour rule to be a master at something -  again - but as usual the wrong person gets the credit for the actual study cited by Malcolm Gladwell who simply made it a meme with a simplified phrase. A little over simplified and if anything it may take 20,000 to become a master but relative to what you are doing - it could also take just 200! Interesting follow up article by person involved in the actual research/study that led to the true-but-not-so-much 10,000 hour rule meme...

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/10/malcolm_gladwell_got_us_wrong_our_research_was_key_to_the_10000_hour_rule_but_heres_what_got_oversimplified/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)